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10 Dec 2016 4:33:30am

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Adam,

You don't have to provide any evidence to justify your beliefs, and you are of course free to believe whatever you want, but since you're writing public comments that express those beliefs, it seems reasonable that I ask if you have any evidence for them.

You said that atheists want to remove the numinous from our lives, and by numinous you said you mean spiritual or divine. If by that you mean supernatural, then I'm simply asking if you have any evidence to justify belief in the supernatural. I'm not aware of any.

If I said that skeptics want to remove the alien influence in our lives, and by that I meant that extraterrestrials were constantly intervening in our affairs, would you just take my word for the existence of these aliens, or would you like to see some evidence first?

However, it appears from you wrote that you don't think beliefs need to be justified by evidence. But if so, then on what other basis can we decide whether they are true or false? Do we just believe anything that anyone says or writes?

And since you "know for a fact" that I hold at least one belief unjustified by evidence, perhaps you could tell me what that is and we could discuss it.